Brake For A Break

Monday.

I’m supposed to have piano lesson at 11am. Conventus rehearsal from 10am-5pm. Harmonica rehearsal from 7-10pm.

It is kinda daunting considering I have yet to complete packing for my Taiwan trip, exchange currency and buy some stuff.

Monday’s gonna take all of me.

Tuesday.

I’m supposed to reach the airport by 5am. Gonna crash at Tiffy’s house before that.

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It’s quite a challenging schedule for an unorganised person like me. =/ I’m stoning now, trying to prolong my Sunday so that Monday wouldn’t come so fast.

Anyway…

I’ve been thinking about post-grad plans. I’m not sure if my lifestyle is able to accommodate shiftwork? The recent attachment got me into some serious considerations. As much as I like nursing, I don’t like it that much to revolve my life around it.

The erratic shifts are so gonna screw up my life in more than one way. I don’t think I’m yet up to sacrifice other commitments.

So within the next one year, I gotta source for shiftless nursing roles which at the same time, enable me to fulfill my one and only aim of entering the medical field.

Am I asking for too much?

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Ok so I’ll be back almost on a Sunday. And in the meantime, I’ll try to keep my mind off whatever is and will be happening here.

 

THE Fall

It’s 4:07am and I can’t sleep. So here I am. =)

On a fateful night not too long ago, I had a major fall tripping over a wire during a jog. It was bad. It wasn’t like I had never fallen, but this was the most traumatising.

I actually cried. Through the 20 minutes I took to walk home.

I remember the entire episode of how I felt the resistance of a wire against my ankle, lunged forward and tried to support myself, but in vain, due to the overpowering gravitational pull.

I skidded flat on the rough road and sustained multiple superficial injuries on my arms, right thumb and palm, leg, lip and abdomen. I pulled myself up, still holding on to my iPhone, which cracked under the immense impact. 

(Now that I think of it, my phone actually acted like a wrist guard, shielding my right hand from further damage.)

Sand plastered itself onto the sticky plasma of my open wounds and I looked like a horrible mess.

It was about 10pm, I was alone and very frightened I must say.

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I was  touched to have supportive friends who composed me down much. A friend actually bought plasters and antiseptic cream for me and it was already midnight. It was during this time when I realised the importance of having “social support”.

It was an awakening experience of me as a nursing student, to not take light of diseases I deem non-serious. It is so convenient to compare the “degree” of illnesses between patients, think “Nah… This is not as bad as that patient’s. It’s ok.” and fail to realise that each patient is an individual with his/her own set of challenges and concerns.

I believe there are many more aspects to address, than the mere physical condition. That is only the tip of an iceberg. Take my (lousy) example, even though it was a nasty fall, the bruises and abrasions were not unfamiliar for me, so my physical state was not my primary concern. However, to fall alone out at night and seeing the cracks on my relatively new phone, affected me psychologically (ok not the best way to phrase). And at that point of time, I needed to address that first and foremost.

Of course, mine is the trivial-est of matters.

Magnify that by a hundred for a HIV/cancer/_____ patient and  then perhaps I can see beyond what I have been previously blinded to.

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Ok, it’s 5:37am and I’m supposed to have school rehearsal at 8am. Hope I do not fall asleep to my sad, slow, emo pieces.

 

Hi I’m BACK.

Year 2 has ended, holiday has begun. It just means doing the things I like minus the guilt part. It sucks being a student here, I must say.

Upcoming events

1) Taiwan trip with the Bananas
2) Performing for Conventus (Annual nursing event)
3) ? Performing with NUS harmonica orchestra for Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival
4) ? Performing for YOG
5) Start of Year 3
6) Piano exam in September

3) & 4) are still pending, and if I’m in, it means rehearsals on Mondays and Fridays on top of my regular Wednesdays’. Not much of a holiday to talk about, but it’s good experience and exposure though. =)

Making the best of every day now.

School is starting in 4 weeks. Too soon. Dislike.